Overview
- Officers arrested Salman Qureshi after CCTV footage and a Facebook post pointed to his role in facilitating the December 24 shooting of teacher Rao Danish Ali on the AMU campus.
- Investigators say Qureshi confessed when confronted with evidence and directed them to a scooter dumped along the Aligarh–Bulandshahar highway and to the car used in the operation.
- Police identify Zubair as the suspected mastermind and name Fahad and Yasir as the alleged shooters, with all three still at large and believed to have fled to Delhi.
- An FIR at Aligarh’s Civil Lines police station cites Bhartiya Nyayay Sanhita sections 103(1) for murder and 109(1) for attempt to murder.
- AMU students held a candlelight march calling for swift arrests and stronger campus security following the killing.